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عَجَّاجٌ

Root: عج

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عَجَّاجٌ Vociferous, clamorous, sounding much, or noisy; an epithet applied to anything that has a voice, or sound, or noise, as a bow and the wind [&c.]; as also عَجْعَاجٌ , this latter mentioned by Lh as applied in this sense to a man: and the former, applied to a stallion [camel], vociferous, or noisy, in his braying: and, applied to a river, sounding: or, thus applied, containing much water; as though it vociferated by reason of the abundance thereof and of the sound of its copious pouring. [See a tropical ex. of it voce ثَجَّاجٌ.]
2 يَوْمٌ عَجَّاجٌ and مُعِجٌّ A day of violent wind that raises the dust.
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